Ensueño
2023 · 4m · Argentina
Directed by Gabriela Seminara, Luciano Andrés Martin
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Lucía, an artist with fear and many doubts, decides to take the plunge and carry out her desire to write her own film script. To achieve what she wants she must remove prejudices, work, focus and visualise where she wishes to arrive.
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The premise reads like self-help seminar copy—artist overcomes doubt, visualizes success, rolls credits—but I'd need to see if the film actually subverts that treacly setup or just leans into it.
A contemplative study of creative paralysis and agency; the formal question here is whether the editing and sound design can sustain four minutes of internal struggle without the anchoring incident most coming-of-age narratives require.
At four minutes and on what appears to be a modest budget, this lives or dies on a single formal choice—likely in how the directors visualize the transition from doubt to action, whether through montage, sound design, or performance—and that decision will determine if it transcends its well-worn premise.